The police report for the car accident that seriously injured Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and three others indicates the car Patterson was riding in was speeding at the time of the accident.

Data retrieved from Patterson’s 2011 Chrysler 300 shows it was traveling at 54 miles per hour one-tenth of a second before the accident, which happened at about 4 p.m. on Aug. 10 at Opdyke Road and Walton Boulevard in Auburn Hills. The posted speed limit in the area is 45 miles per hour.

Patterson, 73, who is still hospitalized at McLaren Oakland with wrist, leg, pelvis and hip injuries, had his seatbelt “wrapped around the back of the passenger seat and then buckled into the seat belt clasp,” according to a statement written by Auburn Hills Police Officer Bryan Eftink.

Patterson and his driver James Cram, 60, have been hospitalized since the accident. They were traveling eastbound on Walton Boulevard when a 2012 Volkswagen Passat driven by Anthony Prainito turned left from Walton onto Opdyke Road, into the Chrysler’s path.

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In a written statement, Prainito said Patterson’s car “came out of nowhere.”

Auburn Hills police concluded that “the Volkswagen failed to yield the right of way” to Patterson’s Chrysler.

Prainito, 31, of Royal Oak, has been charged with three counts of a moving violation causing serious impairment of a bodily function; each charge is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 93 days in jail and/or a $500 fine. Prainito, an employee of CBS Radio Detroit, works as a sales manager at 104.3 WOMC.

“The issue is one of causation,” said Chief Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Paul Walton. “The speed of the other vehicle was not the cause of the collision.”

Prainito was arraigned on Aug. 22 at 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills before Judge Lisa Asadoorian. A not guilty plea was entered on Prainito’s behalf.

In addition to the misdemeanor charges related to the accident, Prainito has been cited for failure to wear a seat belt, a civil infraction.

Auburn Hills Police Officer Mariusz Skomski, the first to arrive on the scene, found Patterson’s car sitting in the roadway and heavily damaged. His driver James Cram was inside the car “stating that he is unable to move his body,” and Patterson was sitting outside of the car being treated for a head injury.

Auburn Hills Police Officer Dan Prachar observed Cram “slumped over the center console” and Patterson “bleeding significantly from the head.” The Chrysler’s steering wheel, driver’s side floorboard and passenger dashboard airbags had deployed, and there was blood on the passenger seat, seat back and center console of the car, Prachar said. Both men were conscious after the accident.

The driver of the Volkswagen Passat, Prainito, was “walking around and bleeding from the top of his head,” Officer Skomski’s report said, and his passenger Raymond Recchia, 51, of Fraser, was “complaining of pain to his body and was trapped in the vehicle due to the damage.” The passenger door of the Volkswagen had to be removed to extricate Recchia.

Recchia, who was taken to William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak for treatment, was the only person among the four involved in the crash who was wearing a seat belt.

“It’s an unfortunate situation,” Patterson’s spokesman Bill Mullan said of the unused seat belts. Patterson is “continuing his recovery,” Mullan said, adding, “there’s no discharge date set at this time. He remains in stable condition.”

Cram, whose family is requesting privacy, is still hospitalized at Detroit Receiving Hospital, Mullan said.

Among the items retrieved from the wrecked Chrysler was a .357 Smith & Wesson revolver. Cram is a retired Michigan State Police trooper and works as a field claims investigator for Oakland County’s risk management office, Mullan said, and “provides an element of security for the county executive” when driving Patterson. The spokesman said Cram is deputized by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.

A decision has not been made on issuing tickets for failure to wear a seat belt to Cram and Patterson while they’re still hospitalized, said Auburn Hills Deputy Director of Public Safety Thom Hardesty.